Still beating the horse. (Thought I saw it move.) Our SYS1.BRODCAST is 20 cylinders allocated in 1991. It has never needed moving except during DASD refresh, when *everything* gets moved. If the volume it's on got trashed, we'd be in such a world of excruciating hurt that BRODCAST is last thing we'd worry about.
Compared with the aforementioned hysteria in the user community over logon time error messages, I'll take my chances. ;-) Plus we do use public broadcast messages to alert folks on upcoming outages and major upgrades. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: SYS1.BRODCAST On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:01:14 +0000, Staller, Allan <allan.stal...@wunderman.com> wrote: >Answering my own question: > >Yes, you can run *WITHOUT* a SYS1.BRODCAST dataset. > >You will receive a couple of messages at logon time indicating SYS1.BRODCAST >cannot be allocated. >The logon will proceed and the user BROADCAST dataset will be handled normally. But if you're like Skip you better remove the hard coded DD from MSTJCLxx or you're probably in for an unpleasant surprise when you IPL. :-) I removed it so many years ago that I can't remember when that change happened. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
